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He jumped into the La Brea Tar Pits to save his dog — and walked out looking like a fossil.

Los Angeles, June 24, 1951.

What began as an ordinary afternoon ended with one of the most haunting rescue images in California’s emergency history.

The photograph shows a young man named Grady Johnson, standing upright after being pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits. His entire body is coated in a thick, dark shell of asphalt — rigid, cracked, almost prehistoric in appearance.

He didn’t jump in for attention, or jump in for fame.

He jumped in because his dog was sinking.

Despite the name, the La Brea “tar” pits are not hot. They are cold — and far more dangerous.

The pits are made of natural asphalt mixed with oil and clay. The surface can look deceptively solid, but once weight is applied, it gives way. The sticky mass grips tighter with every movement, slowly immobilizing anything unlucky enough to step into it.

For more than 50,000 years, the pits have trapped and preserved animals almost perfectly:

-Mammoths
-Saber-toothed cats
-Dire wolves

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